birding

Phone photo of an group of bluebird young. Bluebirds have kept control of one of our nest boxes for about a month now and it's great to see a fruitful result!

I try to leave them alone so this is the first time I've peeked in there.

This is only IR light and kinda reduces the camouflage effectiveness a bit.

Or just "Pigeon Post"? Or even "Recreational Route". Anyway, Wood Pigeon, UK, awaiting the best title I can give it.

Dollern, Germany, June

R7+Sigma 150-600mm C

Dolomites, Italy

Seen yesterday in Boulder, CO, USA.

Netherlands, June

Image description: A kookaburra sitting on a branch in a tree above the photographer. A blurred apartment building is visible in the distance behind the foliage of the tree

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Image description: A close up of a paddling Pacific Black Duck

Netherlands, June

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... well, a park fence round a pond, any way.

Mandarin Duck Mother & Chicks. Reading, UK Canon R6 + RF800mm

Netherlands, June

bonus photos of mom getting into a fight with a coot

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Saundersfoot, Wales Canon R6+RF800mm lens

The House Martins were in the process of building this nest from harbour mud, though I think they gave up on it over the coming days. Why the sparrow was interested I do not know!

Anyone wanna guess whom I photographed there?

Black-backed gull in Saundersfoot, UK - far from a rare bird, but I'm always pleased when I get a bird in flight sharp.

Canon R6 + RF800mm lens.

Oh, and as a bonus, less action, more classic

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Pretty sure it's the same guy as this picture: https://lemmy.ca/post/23106179

Image description: A long legged black and white shore bird is wading through shallow wetlands water, lit by the golden light of the setting sun

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Red kite in Flight

Red Kite (Milvus milvus) Olympus E-M1 II, Panasonic 100-300 II 258mm, f/7.1, 1/1250s, ISO 320

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I love red-winged blackbirds, but I was hoping to see something else as well today (not Canada Geese and American Robins). I actually photographed an osprey fishing too, but damn, those birds are fast!

Shot today in Boulder, CO, USA

More pics on pixelfed!

https://pxlmo.com/i/web/post/710716844312163942

Bremervörde, Germany, June

R7+Sigma 150-600mm C

Sometimes it takes everything you've got to get those feathers correct!

Young gull, probably either Black-backed or Herring.

Canon R6 + RF800mm Saundersfoot, Wales

Hybrid goslings!

When a greylag gander likes a Canada goose a whole lot, sometimes this happens Greylag goose (Anser anser) and Canada goose (Branta canadensis) with their hybrid offspring

Olympus E-M1 II, Panasonic 100-300 II 100mm, f/4, 1/640s, ISO 200

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